Sam Mullins Quotes

#1. I'd rather excite the imagination of a legion of readers and make pennies from each of them than hold off for a larger chunk of change from only a handful of fans.

Hugh Howey

#2. Ego problems are endemic in every walk of life, but in the movie business egomaniacs are megalomaniacs.

Lynda Obst

#3. A judicious man uses statistics, not to get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted upon him.

Thomas Carlyle

#4. Good writing is good writing, but that doesn't mean you can't orchestrate it or tweak it.

John Travolta

#5. Our most meaningful conversations go on late at night when we're on the phone with our friends or talking to our lovers.

Marianne Williamson

#6. Going after the unknown is always fascinating, I think. It becomes part of your life, this desire to know.

Mark Oliphant

#7. And if any of our dear ones die, it must be because it is the will of God, so we ought have fortitude and bear it submissively.

Anton Chekhov

#8. Racial hatred in America still exists but never was it anything like the time immediately after the Civil War. The western history of our nation would not be complete without the story of former slaves that helped develop the unique character of the West.

William Silverman

#9. Landscape, that vast still life, invites description, not narration. It is lyric. It has no story: it is the beloved, and asks only to be contemplated.

Patricia Hampl